The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Moderate supplies of gold continue to pass into the vaults of the Bank of England, and this cir cumstance is exerting a beneficial influence in monetary circles as well as the Stock Exchange, where affairs are much less gloomy than they were a few days ago. The quantity of gold purchased by the authorities yesterday was £65,000, and other similar operations are likely to take place during the next few days. There is scarcely any altera tion to rep or t i n the actual condition of the discount market. It is tolerably well provided with floating capital, but as no decided opinion can be formed as to the future, the joint.stoek and private establish ments still restrict their transactions, and are mani festing an unusual degree of caution in all the busi ness they negociate. Long dated bills are by no means in favour, and at the present moment one of the most popular channels for the temporary em. ployment of surplus money is the Stock Exchange, where loans from day to day are freely offered at 5 per cent. upon the security of the English Funds. It is satisfactory to be able to state that the rumours circulated at the Stock Exchange within the last few days relative to commercial embarras meats have proved unfounded. Although failures may be occasionally announced, there can be no doubt that the trade of the country is very healthy, and as credit has been exceedingly well maintained no difficulty is experienced by respectable houses in obtaining all the accommodation requisite to discharge their accruing engagements. 0 wing to the position of the exchanges and other considerations, the flow of gold to the continent is not expec t ed to be immediately resumed on an ex tensive scale, And this is rather in favour of mone tary prospects. Large quantities of gold are coming forward from Russia, which, with the receipts from Australia, America, &c., will ensure a very large importation of the precious metals. The City of Baltimore hes arrived from America With £12,606. ---- 13.14.' Lir., Wol., andStr. Val. au at Blythe and Tyne. ..... 100 et Bristol and Exeter ....; 100 at Caledonian .• .. 103 50 Cork and Bandon...~. a:1 20 Cornwall all 10 Do A(A gets no div all 1 0 Do. B till6Pc•Pan•has all been paid to B. 60 Dublin & Belfast June.' all 25 Du n. , Perth,&Ab. Juno. all et Edinburgh & Glasgow.! , led St GlasT. and S. Western.' 103 st Gr eat Eastern, Crd. stk, 100 at ; Ditto A stook , 100 at j Ditto EastAnglian at 100 at IGreatNorthot Scotland 100 st Great Northern 100 at ; Do A stock lOO st I Do Bd o , 100 st !Gt. S. and, W. of Irel.n i 100 st Great Westerr,Ortgrinal 100 at 1)0 Str Val zits, stool.; 100 et Do. South Wales at Do. West Alid. -Oxford, lee of Do Newport 100 at Do Hereford' 100 at Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 st London and Blaokwail 100 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast,' 100 at Lon., Chat, an d Dover! 100 St Lon. & North Western! 100 st Lon. & Str•th Western! 100 et Man., Shot, & Lincoln. 100 50 51arypc7.t and Car!isle. all 124 Do t els n -,, s all at Metropolltaa all at Midland St Do Birming. & Derby! 100 50 I , lld. Gt. W. of Ireland' all 25 Do. i shares 25 ;Mid Kent st North British st E'din., Perth, & Dundee 100 at 'Nth. Eastern—Derwics 1 100 25 Do, G.N.E. pnrchase4s.l3.4 at Do Leeds lOO st Do York at Do Carlisle lOO 25 Do. Stock. & Darling, all 25 Do do 1853-58 l9 25 IDo do 186(-61 .... 12 st North London 10 Do New 10 Do New, 1801. — at North Staffordshire .. al' 10 N. and S. W. June:lon., al st Scottish Central ....„„,! 10 at Soot. N. E., Aber. stock' 1( at Do Scot. Mid. s'ock..l 1 10 Shrews, and 'Wcichpool! at Shropshire Union .•.. 1 st South Dev0n........... at South Eastern at 'South Wales et S. York, and River Diui 20 IStaines,Wok.,andWok. st ! Taff Vale- .. .......... • • I ' 10 Do B 10 Do C at Vale of Neath . st Waterford & Kilkenny, at West Cornwall at W. Hartlepool Har.&R 83 65 121 125 6 7 ••••• Wimi• ...... Two o'CLocK. An advance of per cent. has taken place in the Value of the Funds, although at one time it appeared as if a further decline was inevitable. The improve• ment has occurred through few purchases engen dered by a more hopeful feeling with regard to future monetary prospects. Console are now 871 for money, and 88/. / for the account. The New Threes .nd Reduced Annuities are 851 I ; March Exchequer Bills, ss. die. ; and India 5 per Cents., 1031. In the Foreign Market rather more firmness has been apparent, and business is not active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 /; o. Consolides, 50f ; Mexican, 28i; do. New 25 a ; Greek, 241, Spanish Passive, ; do. C ertificates, 13 i ; Portuguese, 47i; and the Confederate Loan, 79/ 80/. In the Railway Share Market there has been rather a firmer tone. Caledonian have improved 55.; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Great Western, each 105. ; while North Western have declined £l, The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about former values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares, in one or two instances, slightly improved. Alliance realise 53; Bank of Australasia, 74; European Bank, 59i ; Metropolitan and Provincial, 244 „i; Oriental Bank, 591 ; London Financial, 237, ; Hudson Bay Company, 16/ ; Credit F onc i er and Mobilier of England Shares are quoted 3 31, prem. Shari 100 Sk / itPck Stook stock I 0 ;took stook stock stock Stook stock StOOk stock _ BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNME NT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do Account, A ug. 8 3 per Cent. Reduced B5l a / New 3 per C ent 8 5 4 A t New 2f per Cent. J an. 1891 Do 5 per Cent,, Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire gith Jan., 1830 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — etc'ck stock stook COLONIAL GOVERN Mb.reh. June, Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 & 3 1 per Cent. J)°ksoo — Do £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk . 5 die Do , 51 per Ct. — INDIAN Account GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1570 . Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do Certificates Do Account ................... Do 1 per C en t . (D eferred 3 per Ce . nt.) Do 41 pez Cent Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.. :Do 5 pe r Cent., Jan. 1872 • ...... Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 D 1),) 80nd5.61,090 -- o under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK.. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian 5 per Cent 1863 .............. Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent - ChilDo Account ..... . ........... ..... Dian 6 per Cent. 041 per Cent .............. Colombian 6 per Cent ~............ Cuba, 6 per C en t . .................... Do 5 per Cent. 1864 ................ -- Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 .............. Do per Cent, 1863 .............. . Equad4or New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. -- Do, Provisonal Land Warra Egyptian nt ........ Do 7 per:Cent .................. 981 , Second Issue .................. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. -- Do Account ....... Do Co upons ................. 241 4 ........................ _.Do Account ........................ Guatemala 5 per Cent ... .. ... ..... Do 1839 a n d 185 9 ......... Italian 5 per C en t.(M aremmana Railwa Mexican 3 p er C ent ..... y . ) 72 Do Account Do 1864.... Do French Scrip, Ex. 251' Oc Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French die Ditto Scrip, £23 paid New G ranada Do 2 p er Cent..... Do Deferred Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — Do do Aug., 1866 — Peruvian 41 per Cent. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per C en t. , 1862 ........ Do Account. ....................... 79} 7 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .......... Do Account ... ............ . ... Do 3 per Cen.t.,1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3.. Do Account ...................... 47t 7 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, St ........ Do 41 per Cent., 1850 1860 — Do 3 per C en t 1859 per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch .... BaDo Scrip, £4O •paid ............ —Pm rd Miall 6 per Cent .................. SpaniDo Account ............ Dosh 3 per ................. I.ccount .•.......... ..... -- Deferred DO New - Deferred ................ DDo Account ....................... Doo :passive ............................. . Account. ................... .. ........ . 13 DoDo Cert. of Coup not funded ...... Account ........................ 131 Swedish, 4 per Cent. .................. TDo Scrip, £6O paid .................. pux urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 .............. o Account ........................ Do 6 per Cent. 1853 Do Account Do £lO9 B on d s 691 9 Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account ............. ....... 70 Do £IODoO Bonds D o Guarant ee d , 4 pe 86 r Cent..... .. 65 Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid ............ 'Venezuela 3 per Cent. ......... Account ...... ............... 1)0 6 per Cent., 1862.... • • .- -Account .................... 6 per Cent., 1864 .............. • Austrilaini,viodends o i n the .. ... ;a . ; ... London ailaper Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian-1-'-cei _ er ........... ‘ -; elat• Ex 2 Dutch 21 per Cent, ,C,x • c4f• ........ Do 4 per Cent. Certitila2" itlii ........ 5 par Cent., 1861: 14 ......... Do Account ........ , Ex. '25 fran.es.. French Relates, 2 per ............ Peruvian Dollar Borads, 41 Cent... .. Pielmontese, 5 per Cent., 25 • is. ...... 27i 8i 25f TWO . . Consols Money ................. . 8 O'CLOCK. 71 tig;Do Account.... 88k STRI nE OF LAB OURERS.—The labo r on the l arge b lock of buildings intended for rae employed del lodging house% now being erected in Farringdon-road. have struck work for an advance of la. per week. •The contractors have been hitherto paying £1 per week to their labourers, British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 3:, Do. do. 1681— k..: , :n.brov.6p.c.Ja. sr.) u.t . 1877-81 Do. Ap. c. Feb., Aug Do. 6 P. c.Mar.& Sept Do. 6 p. c. Jan. &J uly. Do. 5 I nssribed stock ;upe G.Hope, 6 p e,187z Do.Ap & Oct. 1831 Do. 18S( )o. Jan. & July, 1891.. eylon, N0v.1878, 6 ti ilauritius 6 p.Cent. 1873 Do. 1878 Do. 1882 Vatai Gov. 6 per cont.. N7.13.G0v. 6 p.c. J a.&Jul} Lo. 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct. S.W. Gov. 5 p 185 , Du. 5 p. c.,18Y1 to 127( Do. d0.,1888 &upwch slew Zealand 6 p cent. Neva Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1875 ........ Queensland Ger. 6 p. 0. Aus G6p.c.1678.& up.. Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul3 Do, 10 0 p.o. AnAtOct.. 100 100 100 100 32 31 16 17 89 91 110 112 45} 461 7 73 1 , 8 134 140 141 127 130 90 92 CBi OSI 115} 1151 65 67 104 (03 10 42 112 112; 05 86 6$ (6 1064 707} 1301 13111 10J 102 54 65 25 26 1051 106 83 8 102 1011 1 100 i 93k MONEY ITA.RBETI SHAI RRETS—nis day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOBB. Share ) Ea'iways. p a i d. Closing ' Business Price. done. 124 2 68 1$ 1151 1 401 lii 121 95i 4i 65f 5 100 7 1311 301 1051 I 931 3 Busineem done 11110011 84 65 93 04 16 37 9 10 f, 7 i 8 i e 123 126 i 18p 741 751 11 111 126 130 67 59 83 17 83 83i 1101 103 17 8 • 160 165 5 6 2 3 p 101 103 84 36 BRITISH POSSESSIONS, Railways It tvntic St Lawrence dom.,Barodatteent Inc: Go. S. per cent... Do. E. dulialo and Lake II urov Do. Preference il ultalo,BrantoizGodrict. 5 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 197: Go. do. July 1, 187. ao. do. June 1,18 i, ilcutta.&S.Ea.stn. (Lin, .'apeTown Dock Seri; Demerara 7 P.C. per. pf r:astn. Bengal go. p. h;ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c , Do. do. G Ext 1 Do. do. H do. qrand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist fret. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lndiapenin.g - ua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. a... Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 41 per cent..... Do Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New ... • • Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt 90. ssl p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Hadras, guar., 5 p. Do. 41 p. c. Extensior , Dc. 44 ~.. Do. Fifth Extension. Idelb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds lelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Bds. Newßriusswiekac CRnd& Class© and 8........ N.Rl.C'da6 po let it bdk Scinde Do. Delhi I:7 +: Do. do .... r ce ' ~.. 5 Do. Puujaub .... ... ‘ Do. Do. ........ , a Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 1 Cloning Prioe. 58 60 101 102 }die p o 54 7} 8 75 80 75 80 75 80 97 93 94 95 102 104 101 202 19f 101 19/ 20} 19 20 91 93 71 73 80 63 65 67 55 67 48 5: 43 45 27 29 26 28 102 103 par ip 99 101 94 10 101 10k; 89 91 82 81 d fp 994 1001 93 95 89 91 :8 CO all 100 (100 100 2 all , 100 S 5 80 8/ 991 lUOi 99} 1001 id par 9) 10031 95 97 MENT SECURITIES. 98 99 96 99 96 102 84 86 84 86 104 106 107 109 109 111 07 10) 110 112 103 105 103 106 104 103 104 107. 1 97 L9O 97 99 96 98 96 98 100 100 100 100 100 99 102 100 103 106 108 .09 110 1.14.6 3.4.0 8.13.0 58t 17s 40 6.16. r 8.12 4.18.0 2.8.6 ci 0 24 191 3 3.1.0 2.6.9 SrES, 1 3 i 0 1 32 1680 590 1 67 69 27 28 7} 72 5 5i 5 7 2 2i 27 28 74 8 88 40 3 4± 7 9 4} 5 lt j d 98 51 64 75 85 2 1} 11 21 3 3; 831 $ 1001 109 8 41 42 tOO 520 10.0.7 lt 18.15.9 1 130.17.6 2.0.8 3.5.8 8 68i 7 42i 47i 28 30 18 19 8 9 91 101 215 220 92 95 18 20 14 2 14 16 210 215 19 21 14 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. I, 1051 Great Western Orig. per cent pf., 97 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL& Lancaster and Carlisle, 207 8 London and Chatham, 44 per Cent., F 9 Ditto, Cora. Fund stock, 5 per cent., 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS.. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidln), 12 FOREIGN' BILNES T Cape Copper, lim., le/ Alliance (rim.), 51 21 11 3 BANES. Ditto, new, 481:71 A ustralasia, 74 Bank of Egypt, 27 Consolidated Bang, lim., 101 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 20 1 English and Swedish, lim., 15 European Bank, lim., 13 121 131 Hindustan, China, and Japan (11111.), Ditto, new, 19 Imperial Bank 331 4 Ditto, new, 23 Imperial Bank of china, Indla,:and Japan, Bra., 5 41 5 Imperial Ottoman, 161 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 24 London and County, 721 4 London Joint Stock, 431 41 London and South African, 221 London and 1% estminster, 97 Merchant Bank, Um., 26 / Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 241 National Provincial of England, 140 Ditto, ditt o. 34 Oriental B ank Corporation. ssi Union of London, 51 2 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 8 Continental Union Gas, , 8 :1 Credit P onder, 131 * Credit Mobithr, 14 13} Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 3} Fore-street Warehouse, Urn., 61 Hudson's Bay, 16 s Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lira 7[ Indian Carryim,,, lira. i} lnternational Financial Society, lira International Land Credit. lira„ 5} 8 f I Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bondr,, redem. 1870, issued 90, 84 Joint Stock Discount, Urn., tj London Financial Association, 1 11 n., 23j 21 3 / Ditto, new, 17} National Discount Company, lint, 1 3 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lira., Ditto GEC, I} Royal Mail Steam, 95} Telegrath Construe. and Maintenance, 31 THE ARREST Ok' MULLER —oo the arrival o f Muller in England the °facers in charge will at once pro ceed with him to Londo n , where his examination will take place at the Bow -street Police-court, from which office the warrant was issued for his apprehension. It is expected that the examination Tall last two or three days, BRITIS .*4 I ,, ambriau Consol. Gold I Jiltlord Amalgaanated Devon G. Com.. (Taoist ; East Bassett (Illogan) I East Clogau Gold Ltd. :East Caradon ..... I Past Carn Brea... ... W . l Russel (Tavist.k.)l G am.&St.Auhyn(Gwen.; Great South Tejgus G. Wheal Vor (lielston Grenville .. iter: - .4's-ro o t ........ ti ingston Downs.., Lady Bertha largaret (tiny Lelant 11arke Valley.. ....... . 4 %Iyndy Iron Ore (Lim.) New Seton —• North Downs .... . S.Wh'l Basset (Illogan; North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze)) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) South Caradon(St, Cleer; S. Carn Brea (Illogan) , S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 'Stray Park ...... . 1 l'amar Silv.S: Lead Alin 1 !fin Crott I West Basset (Illogan) 1 W. Cr radon (Liskeard) West Seton ...... Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller(ltedruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant,), WhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann Wheal Oeton ......... .1 Wheal Trelawney (Lis.), i Wheat Union THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1864 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUG H- STREET. THE NEW MEDICAL ACT.—Mr Wm. Talley, solicitor, of Beacon's-fields, Bucks, in correspondence with the General Council of Medical Education and Registration, applied to Mr Tyrwhitt under the New Medical Act for a summons against a person, pretending to be a surgeon, and placing on his door a plate with the word " Surgeon" upon it. Mr Tyrwhitt read the 40th clause of the act, as follows : " Any person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be, or take or use the name or title of a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine, surgeon, general practi tioner, or apothecary, or any name, title, addition, or de scription implying that he is registered under the Act, or that ho is recognised by law as a physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine, surgeon, general practi tioner, or apothecary, shall, upon summary conviction for any such offence pay a sum not exceeding £20," and granted the summons. Mr Talley said that in applying for the summons he wished to state that there was no feeling of animosity to wards the person, but that it was for the protection of the public, LITERATURE. Robson. A Sketch. By George Augustus Sala, Hotten, Piccadilly. A charmingly readable little violet-coloured six penny brochure, is this timely tribute to one, alas, now dead and gone—Robson, of the Olympic! It ought, however, to have had its authorship more accurately defined upon its title-page. The" Sketch" of Robson as here given to us, is—in spite of what the title-page asserts—not by Mr. Sala. Three gen tlemen are, by that random assertion, coolly rolled into one, like (as Mrs. Malaprop would say) Cer. berus. One of the three, if you will, is the famous New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, that capital, comical, vivacious, sparkling, ealightful ready-writer of reports, noels, newspape7 articles, anything you please—whom it was the fashion once upon a time to sneer at as Dickens-and-w,ter 1 G. A. Sale, to w;t, of " Twice Round the Clock," of the " Seven Sons of Mammon," of " Gaslight and Day. light," of the Temple Bar Magazine, of the staff of Household Words, and All the Year Round, author of " Quite . Alone," photographer of " The Streets of ' the World," Reporter, Romancist, Essayist, Correspondent I Yes, here, too, as a Sketcher of poor Robson, as a celebrant of his genius, as a delineator of his peculiarities—Mr Sala is —how shall we put it ? Well, be is not the least bit in the world like his list heroine in being " Quite Alone !" He is, here, oa the contrary, as we have said, but as One Out of Three. And—as it happens—in spite of all his brilliant powers, as a Sketcher of London People, and especially of London Celebrities—Mr Sala i 3 here simply as— the last and the least of the three. His colaborateurs in the production of this most acceptable, because wonderfully well-timed memo rial of Robson, being —th e anc nymous biographer of Robson (immediat e ly a f ter t h e l a tter's recent de mise) in the columns of our very able and thoroughly and most consistently liberal contem. porary the Daily News, and—in this, not only making up the third, but fairly leading them off— the publisher himself, Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly. In point of fact, therefore,whatever there is in this little memorial sketch of Robson, that is perfectly fresh and original, is Mr. Hotten's. The rest of it, being simply so much reprint—here from the Daily News—there from the American journal for which Mr. Sala pencilled his limning of Robson while Robson himself was yet living. What we are especially thankful for, therefore, in the matter of this livraison, is precisely this fresh fragmentary morsel of information in regard to Thomas Brown bill, otherwise Frederick Robson, penned by Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly, and penned by him in the manner following. Quoth Mr. Rotten (after a graphic sketch of the locality referred to)—in a little out-of-the-way back-slum hard by the Strand, in a strange cluster of holes and corners, yclept Bedford bury, there in the year 1836, and while he was yet no more than fifteen years of age— One Thomas Robson Brownbill, a little boy from Mar gate, was apprenticed to Mr Smellie, the copperplate en graver and well-known printer of Mr George Cruikshank*s humorous plates. Master Brownbill's friends had found him crazy after the stage as other urchins sometimes are after a sea life. Various professions, less romantic but conceived to be more respect able, were mentioned to him, but, with the exception of the graver's art, he would not listen to any one of them. This he thought he might like, so his mother resolved to try him. The lad soon became an immense favourite with his master and the workmen, and they familiarly nicknamed him "Bill," " little Bill," a sort of jocose shortening of his sur name, Brownbill—for he was not known as Robson until some years later, when he adopted a christian name as his theatrical title, adding Frederick, which he cons'dered de cidedly stylish and quite out of the common ; a custom, no very unusual I believe, with other ladies and gentlemen of his profession. I met one of the workmen the day after his death, and told him of his old comrade's departure. " What, little Bill gone I" he said. "Al! he was a merry lad, but he had better by half 7 ftStuck to tho bench." " Little Bill" soon began to exhibit his theatrical tastes to the workmen, and his powers of mimicry kept the ntab lishment from morn until night in a continual states` ood humour. If a knife grinder or other travelling odellfy en tered the court, Bill buttoned up his coat, cocked his hat, and bawled in imitation until the tears ran down the men's faces with laughter. The apprentice always dressed showily, and usually had his hair artificially curled in ringlets. ills hat was an extra siza with a twisted brim, and as he wore this somewhat jauntily set upon a rather large-sized head, the vulgar boys of the court used to called him the "little big head." Alas for the uncertainties of parental authority! Although the days were occupied over the graver, the nights were almost as regularly spent on the two or three amateur stages which were then to be met with in this neighbourhood, end the costume we have just mentioned, and the ringlets, were simply the effects of the mind's bent and the evening's re- creation. The youth, however, neyer shirked work for play ; and his master used to say that there was not a man or boy in his shop who was so regular in the morning's at tendance as little Brownbill. At this time he lived with his mother—his father had been dead wall y years—in Henry- street,Vauxhall, so that he had some distance to walk daily. He was bound for seven years, but only stopped fourwith his master. An unforeseen circumstance happening, the now skilful engraver and amateur theatrical found himself at 19 out of his time, and his own master. Whether it was a promise made to his mother, or that he feared to rely en tirely on the stage for a livelihood, we do not know, but certain it is that immediat e ly u p o n obtaining his liberty he did not go and enlist, without more ado, in the dramatic corps of one of the L on d on th ea t re sln his old apprentice ship day s , h e use d t o say h e wou ld do So directly an oppor tunity offered itself; but this was probably one of little threat s w ith w hi c h sangu i ne those the amateur th eatr i cal, finding conceived that a li tt l e business might thoughtlessly alarm their fidgetty young people are apt to e ,ders. His master gave be formed out of th e up busines s i n t h e o l d court, an d re aroved to Scotland, and Brownbill now to o k a s h op in B ry dges-street, Covent-gar den, free, very wisely "Lord Lov e l" — tdaekne, panardthibereareheatceaurrriepdeorinerbmusainneeesss:lB s ma he continu e d t o old customers th a t M r Smellie had a ba a n in do a n s e te d r . e M bg r r ß av o e b r s f o e n r bothl2 m o w n i t t h b s b . i m D a e u l r f i n a g n d the i a w a h b o ci l i e e n of e e t a l:i s w t a i and a favourite song, b g e e n n r er in all i3 y r s y u d n g g e i: E c t h re a e rt t ic o t b e e r e . r F ve i d n , a b llp pi , s OCO of paper a tt ached on e morning, hi s neigh to the shutters of Mrßrownbill's shop,that business had been relinquished. The engraver had taken home his tools to keep as curiosities, and had accepted the offer of a country m anager. From that ti me to the pres ent he has b een b efore a public—one at first sm a ll an d provincial, but latterly l ar ge and metropolitan —a s F re d er ick Robson. I have just said that he kept his tools when he gave up his business. He used to say to au oldfriendthat he never looked at or handled them without pleasant r eminiscences eare f of those early apprentice days passed in the quaint little Of this strange, eccentric, Tragio•Comic mßanedfaogredrbiaulr Y lile r : re mental da dy es ; actor— this pre-eminent Grotesque—Robson, of the Olympic—there appears, upon the cover of this e u o n ti a e l n io . yed by the sixpenny brochure, the Vera di g i e B ;La the shape of a little woodcut presentin g him to our view as The Wandering Minstrel. In respect to the won drous representation of which dil ap id ated (not to say squalid) character by b it° sOn s We remember our , selves hearing Douglas _Jerrold remark one day, with a pretended shudder — ." I could fancy his playing it—on his Benefit 11 10 1 l : ,_ real Night. --with ver min !" An anecdote entirely at M r. Hotten's service —in the event of his reprinting this admirable sketch of Robson. ..,........ , m• Pansie. By Nathanie l H awthorne. H o tt en . In appearance—issued as "Pan s i e " is simultet• neously with the foregoing --4 companion publica tion. But—when it comes to b e l ooked into—ah, true, d is iff u e p re o n n t ! eac The nam e l essb Odour of death, it is ) defines a s th e " roses at .e , E , tl , gar Poe, in his most of pansi es "-- t h e death, i n " Robson," of the theme of th. t ! e littl e b oo k— t h e d eat h , in "an mart' wonderful o dour ~,o poem r ( :: odourT To Annt Yes, he re i n "P ans i e " no P to s n i' of the h one of fthe' aaubteaour beautiful tuei Puritan Pansies" in child Pansie—we have th Poe's death-song just r efe rred to, b u t i n thi s ch e ar l m as i t itnlgltilte fragrant tlesketch of th e andiati' cfil ore scent morsel of Haw thorne t iDg freshly! into spray a y leaf c f i w flower th and perfume just e as it were, put before the goodly tree itself was cut down so sud denly and prematurely. It was the beginning of a new story by the world-famous American Poet- Romancist, Nathaniel Hawthorne—a new story by him to be entitled " The Dolliver Romance." Of that new story the novelist of the "Scarlet Letter" was destined only to write the opening chapter, a chapter hero presented to the English reader under the name of the child-heroine of it—Pansie! How gracefully and graciously it is written, this last outpouring from the fancy of Hawthorne, let the subjoined fragment attest ;-- "Pansie, darling," said Dr Dolliver cheerily, patting her brown hair with his tremulous fingers, "thou has putsome of thine own friskiness into poor old grandfather, this tine morning I Dost know, child, I.ii‘vi lie oases near Ureaki4g his neck down stairs at the sound of thy voice ? What wouldst thou have done then, little Pansie ?" " Kiss poor grandpapa and make him well 1" answered the child, remembering the doctor's own mode of cure in similar mishaps to herself. "It shall do poor grandpapa good I" she added, putting up her mouth to apply the remedy. " Ah, little one, thou hest greater faith in thy medicines than ever I had in my drugs," replied the patriarch with a giggle, surprised and delighted at his own readiness of re sponse. "But the kiss is good for my feeble old heart, Pansie, though it might do little to mend a broken neck; so give grandpapa another dose, and let us to breakfast." In this merry humour they sat down to the table, great grandpain and Pansie side by side, and the kitten, as soon appeared, making a third in the party. First, she showed her mottled head out of Pansie's lap, delicately sipping milk from the child's basin -without rebuke ; then she took post on the old gentleman's shoulder, purring like a spin ning-wheel, trying her claws in the wadding of his dress ing-gown, and still more impressively reminding him of her presence by putting out a paw to intercept a warmed over morsel of yesterday's chicken on its way to the doctor's mouth. After skilfully achieving this feat, she scrambled down upon the breakfast-table and began to wash her face and hands. Evidently these companions were all three on intimate terms, as was natural enough, since a great many childish impulses were softly creeping back on the simple minded old man ; insomuch that, if no worldly necessities nor painful infirmity had disturbed him, his remnant of life might have been as cheaply and cheerily enjoyed as the early playtime of the kitten and the child. Old Dr Dolli ver .and his great-granddaughter (a ponderous title, which seemed quite to overwhelm the tiny figure of Pansie) had met one another at the two extremities of the life-circle; her sunrise served him for a sunset, illuminating his locks of silver and hers of golden brown with a homogeneous shimmer of twinkling light. Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctor's only child, poor Bessie's offspring, bad died the better pare of a hundred years before, and his grandchildren, a numerous and dimly remembered brood, had vanished along his weary track in their youth, maturity, or incipient ago, till, hardly knowing how it had all happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerveless grasp. Apply those closing words—not, as here hinted, to old Dr Do'liver, but to Nathaniel Hawthorne him se!f—and see how marvellously, pathetically, mys teriously they express the sudden straying away and evanishing of the dreamer of this dream of Pansie, away into the land of dreams—" hardly knowing how it all had happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infant's small fingers in his nerve. less grasp." And so—passing from our ken with the child,Pansie's hand in his—adieu to Nathaniel Hawthorne! The Last Hours of Prince Albert. There has reached us from abroad a most inter esting extract from a letter which was written by a member of the Queen's household shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential position which the writer held at the time not only gives the assurance of perfect reliability, but invests the following lines with a very special interest. After describing the :grief and fears of the whole household for the Queen, the writer speaks of the personal loss sustained in the death of Prince Albert: "How I shall miss his conversation about the chile dren. He used often to come into the schoolroom to speak about the education of the children, and he never left me without my feeling that he had strengthened my hands and raised the standard I was aiming at. Nothing mean or frivolous could exist in the atmosphere that surrounded him ; the conversation could not be trifling if he was in the room. I dread the return of spring for my dear lady. It was his favourite time of the year—the opening leaves, the early flowers, and fresh green were such a delight to him; and he so loved to:point out their beauties to his children that it will be ter. riblo to see them without him. The children kep. his table supplied with primroses, which he espe. cially loved. The last Sunday he passed on earth was a very blessed one for the Princess Alice to :ook back upon. He was very ill and very weak, and she spent the afternoon alone with him, while the others were in church. He begged to have his sofa drawn to the window, that he might see the sky and the clouds sailing past. He then asked her to play to him, and she went through several of his favorite hymns and chorale. After she had played some time she looked round and saw him lying back, his hands folded as if in prayer, and his eyes shut. He lay so long without moving that she thought he had fallen asleep. Presently he looked up and smiled. She said, Were you asleep, dear papa ?"Oh no,' he answered, ' only I have such sweet thoughts.' During his illness his hands were often folded in prayer ; and when he did not speak, his serene face showed that the happy thoughts were with him to the end. The Princess Alice's fortitude has amazed us all. She saw from the first that both her father and mother's firmness depended on her firmness, and she set her self to the duty. He loved to speak openly of his condition, and had many wishes to express. He loved to hear hymns and prayers. He could not speak to the Queen of himself, for she could not bear to listen, and shut her eyes to the danger. His daughter saw that she must sot differently, ana she never let her voice falter or shed a single tear in his presence. She sat by him, listened to all he said, repeated hymns, and then, when she could bear it no longer, would walk calmly to the door, and then rush away to her room, returning soon with the same calin and pale face without any,appearance of the agitation she had gone through. I have had several interviews with the poor Queen since. The first time she said, You can feel for me, for you have gone through this trial.' Another time she said how strange it seemed, when she looked back, to see how much for the last six months the Prince's mind had dwelt upon death and the future state ; their conversation had so often turned upon these subjects and they had read together a book called " Heaven our Home,"which had interested him very much. He once said to her, We don't knew in what state we shall meet again; but that we shall recog- El iza each other and be together in eternity I am p e rfeoLly certain.' It seemed as if it had been in tended to p i :c.lnare her mind and comfort her, though of course it did Cot strike her then, She said she was a wonder to hereCif, and she was sure it was in answer to the prayers of ::er people that she was so ild not last, and that sustained. She feared it wo,: --------- times of agony were before her. he said, "There's not the bitterness in this trial that I is It when I lost my mother—l was so rebellious then ; bt,,! now 1 can see the mercy and love that are mixed in m 1 trial. Her wholo thought now is to walk worthy of him, and her greatest comfort to think that his spirit . 8 always near her, and knows all that she is doing." I —Northern Whig. ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On Monday afternoon a young man named Frederick Williams, a cooper, 26 years of age, was in: the act of cross ing the Midland Railway, near one of the engine sheds, for the purpose cf reaching the Horfield Gardens, when an engine suddenly emerged from the shed. The alarm was given by the driver; too late, however, for the man to escape, and he was knocked down, the wheels of the engine going over his legs and severing them from his body. He was immediately conveyed to the infirmary, and is now going on favourably.— Weefern Daily Press. FATAL DIIEL.—A Geneva letter in the Temps says :—" The Socialist agitator M. Lassalle has just los his life in a duel with a Moldo-Wallachian. He was only 40 years of age. The adversaries fought with pistols at 15 paces, and were to fire while the signal, one, two, three, was being pronounced. Lassalle was an excellent marksman, but the Moldo-Wallachian fired at the word ' one,' and his ball traversed the intestines of the other. The Countess de Hatzfeld, who happened to be at Geneva at the time, imme diately sent for several experienced surgeons, and, amongst ethers, for M. Chelius, jun., of Heidelberg; but on their arrival the sufferer was already on the point of death. The duel did not originate in political motives." THE STORM AT LIVERPOOL AND IN THE CHAN NEL.—During the whole of Sunday night, Monday, and up to an early hour yesterday, a very severe storm of wind and rain swept over Liverpool, and from accounts which are constantly coming to hand, it must have extended far away down the Irish Cbanna. Several Welsh and Irish coasters have been very roughly handled, and one or two large foreign• going vessels have been compelled to put back to the Mersey for shelter. Fortunately, up to the despatch of our parcel yesterday evening, no serious disaster bad been reported at Liverpool. The splendid new screw steamer City of Dublin, belonging to Messrs Inman's Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam ship Company, which lift Liverpool on Saturday for New York, has been obliged to return to the Mersey in a crippled condition. The City of Dublin encountered the full force of the gale on Sunday, and the tremendous seas caused the ship to pitch very much, so that at times her screw would be completely out of the water. Cfn one of the occasions, in the absence of any resisting power, the main driving wheel went round at such a rate as to knock all the cobs out tad w eel, WESTMINSTER. OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS' TRICKERY.—A very respectable looking woman applied to the magistrate for redress under the following circumstances : Applicant said that on Sunday night last she get into an omnibus at the Cambridge-road to ba conveyed to St. George's Hospital. On passing Knightsbridge barracks she gave the conductor a shilling to take her fare, and when she got out said, "I gave you a shilling, if you remember, and I have not had nay change," He replied, " Y es, all right, ma'am," and then the omnibus drove oft, the con ductor pointing to his badge after he had gone some dis stance. Complainant had succeeded in getting the number of the omnibus, and on going to the Bank on the following morning saw the omnibus time-keeper, who gave her the conductor's badge number. Mr Dayman inquired whether it was a Kew-bridge or a Hammersmith omnibus. Applicant said it was a Hammersmith omnibus only. Mr Dayman—What is the fare ? Applicant—Sixpence, Mr Dayman— Is there any difference of fare on a Sunday or after any particular time of night ? Applicant—There is a difference after 8 o'clock, but there is no fare whatever amounting to a shilling, which has been taken of me. Mr Dayman—What is the increased fare—it must be put upon the table of fares in the omnibus ? Applicant—lt is stated there, " Ninepence to London after 8 o'clock"—that is, either from Hammersmith or the Cambridge-road, the entire distance. Mr Dayman—You may take a summons for the over• charge. THAMES. ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Harriett Penn, a surly-looking woman, was charged before Mr Partridge with attempting to murder George Allen, a sailor, at his lodings, Cornwall street. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous even ing about 9 o'clock complainant returned home, when he found the prisoner lying drunk on the bed. He told her to get up and get him his tea, and observed that he supposed she intended to serve him as she did a week ago. As she objected to do as he wished, he remarked that he would pack up his goods and go away in the morning. He was in the act of tying up his things and stooping down for that purpose, when the prisoner, who was behind him, gave him a violent blow on the head with a chopper, which caused the blood to flow profusely. Mr Partridge—Did she say anything when she struck you ? Complainant said she called him a b--, and was about to strike him again, when a policeman came in. Mr Partridge—Have you felt any serious effects from the blow ? Complainant—Yes, sir. I have not been able to work since. I went to the station-house, where the wound was dressed by Mr. Ross, the divisional surgeon, who said it was a very bad wound. K 245 stated that he hoard the disturbance, and that when he got in the room he found the complainant covered with blood, and the prisoner was wiping the blood from the chopper. (The constable produced the instrument, which had blood on it.) The prisoner was remanded. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The arrivals Of English wheat, fresh up to our markets to. day, were very moderate. The trade, however, was quiet for all qualities, yet no change took place in prices, compared with Monday. With foreign wheat, the market was well supplied. In most descriptions, a limited business was transacted, at previous quotations. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a moderate supply of barley on tho stands. Generally speaking the trade was dull, and prices had a drooping tendency. The malt trade was quiet, at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was large. There was less activity in the demand for most descriptions; nevertheless, prices ruled firm. Beans and peas were in limited supply, and both articles commanded extreme rates. Flour was in moderate request, at Monday's quototions, AURIVALS THIS WVEIC. Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats. Flour. English .. 320 60 530 110 290 Irish Foreign 3,110 1,670 10,990 380 brls. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of new hops on sale is tolerably largo, and the trade rules heavy, at drooping prices, WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand rules inactive, as follows : CBeef, from 2s 10d to; 4s 4d; mutton, 3s Bcl to 4s 8d; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81148 by the carcase. WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE IMPROYEMENTS.—Yes• terday, by order of the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, the removal of the whole of the houses required to com plete the approaches to Westminster-bridge was commenced in Parliament -street, New Palace-yard, and Bridge-street. A STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE FOR BIRKENHEAD. —At the monthly meeting of the Birkenhead Commis sioners yesterday it was agreed to appoint a committee to take into consideration the question of providing a stipen diary magistrate for Birkenhead. The commissioners gene rally are in favour of the appointment of a paid magistrate, and the committee's chief business therefore will be to fix the salary, &c. THE BIRKENHEAD STREET RAlLWAY.—Birken head, which resembles many American cities in having the advantage of an extensive street railway system, is to be subjected to law for this reason. Mr. Gough, hotel pro prietor, and Mr. Evans, omnibus proprietor (whose traffic the street railway interferes with), have intimated that un less the line of rails in Bridge -street are at once taken up, they will take such steps to enforce their removal as the solicitors acting for them may advise. PREMATURE SMOKING.—Like many other pro found thinkers, Mr Punch is fond of smoking, and he naturally entertains a sympathy for smokers, To have his sympathy, however, smokers must smoke sensibly, and not commit excesses. Mr Punch likes moderate drinking, but he hates to see men drunk; and he regards immoderate smokers as only a shade less to be despised by hina than drunkards. Smoking prematurely is, to 111 r Punch's think ing, the worst form of excess, and the one which moves in him most hatred and disgust. Smoking prematurely is a selfish, snobbish practice, and it is matter for re gret that there are not more means to stop it. Clearly it is nonsense to pretend that boys can really have a need or liking for tobacco, or be a whit the better or the happier for using it. Boys who prematurely smoke do so not because they like it, but because they think it manly to be seen able to smoke, Such smokers are, in fact, mean, silly little snobs, and all right-minded people jus4 hold them in con tempt. Nature does her best to act as their tobacco stopper ; but by practice they acquire the power to smoke without being made sick by it, and this done they delude them selves by fancying that tobacco has become a vital need to them, and when they smoke they try to think they really relish it. This, however, is sheer nonsense, for the true taste for tobacco comes alone with age, like the appetite for turtle, and it is not to be acquired by those who prematurely seek it. Moreover, bojs who take to smoking have not the sense to put due bounds on their indulgence, and they are apt to smoke at times when it does them the most injury, and is to others the worst nuisance. Unable to control themselves, they smoke in business hours and in going to their business; and when going out to dinner they take a furtive pipe, and even come into a drawing-room with coats that stink of stale tobacos, Now, tobacco is a good thing, and good things ought not to bo wasted. Smoking prematurely is a worse than waste, for it annoys people about him and only harms the smoker. One cannot well doubt this, if one but sees the pimply cheeks and tallowy complexions of the young short-pipe sucking fools who meet us everywhere. Every whiff they take up helps to blow their brains out, and put out of tune their organs of digestion. Few men can smoke sarly ‘ in the day w thout hurting them, and any boy who does so must assuredly be weakened both in body and in mind by it. A boy (which word applies to all youths under 20) who goes to business daily with a pipe between his teeth has put an enemy into his mouth, that will steal away his brains, and it is well that his employer should be warned against the rubbery. Smoking prematurely is a habit as injurious as taking early morning drams, or drinking port wine before dinner ; and as the evil has increased to really serious dimensions, .21/r Punch may be excused for making serious remarks, and not making a joke of it,— TuncA, Fatal Occurrence.—This Day, This morning an accident, attended with fatal results, took place in High-street, Bloomsbury. A man, very respectably attired, was observed by some persons standing on the kerb, apparently waiting for an omnibus. Just, however, as one of the Company's vehicles plying between Westminster and Camden-town was within a yard of the spot on which he was standing, the man suddenly fell into the road, and before the driver could pull up his horses both wheels passed over his body. On being raised from the groand he was found to be dead. The body was given over to the parochial authorities of St. Giles's, and the driver of the omnibus was taken into custody. On his being placed at the bar, before Mr. Vaughan, at the Bow-street Police-court, he gave his name as Joseph Prescott, but that not the slightest blame could attach to him was clearly proved by the evi evi- dence of two of the passengers on the omnibus, who saw the man stagger and fall, but whether from a fit or the in fluence of drink of course they could not say. The driver, they wero of opinion, did all that was in his power to pre vent the accident, but the unfortunate man fell so near and directly in front of the wheels that the unfortunate circum stance was beyond control. Mr Vaughan said he should adjourn the case for a week, in order that a coroner's inquest and post mortem examina tion might be made of the body. There was nothing on the person of the deceased which could lead to his identity. The driver was released on his own recognisances. THE MINOR GERMAN STATES. (From the Times' CorreBfrnient.) LETrsic, Sept. 3. If you are desirous to study the symptoms of p3litical movement in Germany, mind you do not come to lock for them in the German cities—not, at least, in these dead months of August and bep. tember. The very landlord of your hotel is out of town, and the representative of your Gracious Queen is not only off to the Hartz mountains him self, but ho has actually shut up shop, and left no. body but a "small servant," a little, slovenly wench, to watch the dust as it gathers on the shelves of his desolate consular office. There was a meet ing of all the German agriculturists the other day in Hanover; a convention of all the German jurists yesterday at Brunswick. The papers throughout the land are full of their long-winded deliberations; yet there was scarcely a soul astir about the streets of either city, and we were not aware of any even temporary ignition of the waters of the Leine or the Ocker, as they flowed peaceably and somewhat murkily past their walls. It must, one would think, go rather hard with a traveller, who should find neither owls at Athens nor earthen pots at Samos, nor coals at Newcastle. But what would you say of a poor wight who had been baffled in his endeavours to fall in with a bookseller in Leipsie P Yet such was the case with me. All the gentlemen in that line of business are to rendezvous here for the great Michaelmas Fair, and, in the meanwhile, they leave their comptoirs to take care of themselves. Of the clerks that are left behind one was blind, another a stutterer, a third hopelessly stupid—so I went no further with my inquiries. Of course, when everybody is out of town, the town still swarms with nobodies. At Hanover, which looked like Palmyr a the opera season opened on the 28th I .. _ ult. ; here, in Leipsic, on the let instant. The houses in both places were crammed, though the spectacle was something worse than third-rate. Some of the amateurs who called oat "Hernan Cortes !" nine times at the Court Theatre the other day were certainly human beings, but they are not the people you want—not the political men. For these there is, at this bathing season, a general holyday. Were even all the politicians at their homes instead of at their Kursaals, one might doubt whether there can at any time be such a thing as political life in Germany. Even newspapers, though possibly as numerous in this country as any where else in the world, seem not to be for the Ger mans the daily bread they are for other civilised people. Printed and published they are, no doubt, and, it may be surmised, read 'and inwardly di. gested, but they are not as übiquitous as in France or Italy, where newsmen are to be heard bawling underneath every window ; nor as in the United States of America, where a news shop is esta blished at every third door of every street, or at the door of every bar-room of every hotel ; nor, finally, as in England, where every railway station is infested with news-dealers, both peripa tetic and stationary. Even in Hamburg, the busiest and most advanced centre of German coma mercial life, the Nacrichten or the Borsenhalle can only be had on subscription, or, at the utmost, by way of favour, on application to the respective offices. I suppose the Germans take in such for home consumption ; the reading-rooms of the best hotels profess to keep the papers for the benefit of their customers, and a stray copy, now one, now of another, of these periodical publics■ tions is to be found strewn here and there about the table, but as a general rule, only the stale copy, beer-stained, redolent of tobacco, torn to tatters, and hanging, not without difficulty, on the steel or wicker frame, which makes the reading or even the holding of it, a most troublesome task. Out of doors, it is neither the street porter nor the dienstmann nor the drowsky driver that is ever to be seen, as in other countries, with a newspaper in his hand. You hardly ever fall in with a fellows traveller in a railway carriage, be it of the first, second, or third class, that happens to be so em• ployed. Wore it ever the case, twenty to one your readingvis.a xis would, like yourself, be a stranger in the land. Whatever the cause may be, although every German can read,although writing and print ing men are to be found in this country in greater numbers than anywhere else in Europe, reading seems to be a solemn ceremony, only to be per. formed within closed walls, in the sanctuary of home, /lop Intelligence. MAIDSTONE.—Picking is now general. The Lops in most grounds come down short of expectations. Red rust and white mould are on the increase, and the hops are fast changing colour. Still there will be some very first-rate samples in this neighbour hood. __ -- WEST MALLING.—Where picking has commenced the hops come down fast. The wind and rain have turned some of them red, but there is not much mould. Few are yet quite ripe, but it le feared they will not keep. Picking will be general at the beginning of the week. ROCHESTER.—Picking has now commenced in thi s district, and during the present week will be.. come gcneral, From present appearances the crop appears ti, be overrated, as the hops come to scale lighter than ti as anticipated. The quality, on the whole, is good, bit in some gardens the late frosty nights have proved Niery injurious. CAN TERBITRY.—DarKg the past week :nould has made its appearance among:it the hops, although as Yet it has not made much ha.voc. In one or two grounds picking has commenced, but the hops do not come down quite so well as was anticipated, the quantity being short underneath. The average will be about 8 cwt. to the acre. SUSSEX.—Many of the plantations have improved under the influence of the recent rains, and espe- cially during the past week. There is some draw• back in the shape of mould, which has increased in a few localities, but not yet to such an extent as to very seriously reduce the crop. WORCESTER.—Most of the planters began pick ing last week, and it will become general this week. Four pockets of very inferior quality were sold on Saturday week at 1:5 12s per cwt, • ITOP PLANTING IN THE VALE OF EVESHAM.-- Considerable interest has been felt by the introduc tion of hop culture in the much famed Vale of Evesham. The ground was first planted three years ago, and in this year fully polled, and pro mises a yield on the average of eight to nine cwt per acre, while the bedded outsets planted this spring will yield about two cwt per acre ; they are all re markably free from disease,aud promise to produce a sample of excellent quality.—South Easiem Ca:eV°, M. DE P.ED.SIGNY'S SPEENT.—The Inclependance Beige says :—" The approbation given to M. de Persigny's speech by the Constitutionnel has produced a most unplea sant impression in Paris. The attitude of the semi-official journal in this matter is the lees comprehensible, inasmuch as M. do Persigny, according to the information sent us, far from having been the echo in his fipeech of distinguished views, was within an ace, on the contrary, of being requested to eetioa raoratiou." Lii,9play more eirmalsp SECOND EDITION. OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 o'CLo(ac. SPORT 'G•INTELLIGENCE,—This WAR WICK RACES—Tms DAY, Orr ELECTRIC TELEGLAPIL) WELTER CUP. Monkey Overatone S WEEPS EAK ES. Clown Pat is Ethelred 3 NURSERY lIANDI CAP. lietty Cedric Tilt 3 Eleven ran. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. SE FTEMBER. Weymouth ............ 1 ' Baden-Baden..,,, 1 Warwick September,..• 6 Bridgwater ...... 8 Leicester 8 Doncaster .. Brecon ................ 19 Richmond ............ 20 Royal Caledonian Lunt 21 31oninouth ............ 2'4 Manchester Autumn . " 7 3 NewmarketFirst October 27 Iszu Bedford Edinburgh and Lothians Club 5 Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Lincoln ............ . 18 Kelso • • ... ....... •19 Gloucester ..... 0u ....... 20 Newmarket ns. . en. 24 Worcesor Autumn .... 1 Larewsbury Autumn .. 14 11111 ER. NOTH: Leamington&War.R unt 22 IRISH. Sir TBIMER. Carragh 6, 7, S OCTOBER. Czrragh HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar- G eneral's Report.) The deaths registered in London in the week that e.aded last Saturday were 1,441, showing a slightlincrease en the number in the previous week, which was 1 ; 413. If the deaths from epidemic cholera is the 35th week of 1854 are excluded, it will be found that the average number of devi ls i n the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,113, which corrected for increase of population will be come 1,227. Hence it appears that the deaths la s t week were 214 in excess of the estimated tramber. The deaths from zymotic diseases w ere 513. Under this head are incaided seven deaths from smallpox, 58 from measlee, 62 from scarlatina, 18 from diphtheria, 23 from whoOpingcougla, 87 from typhus, 180 from diarrhcei, and nine from cholera. Of the 180 deaths caused by diarrhea, 159 were of children under five years of age, and the nine victims of cholera were under two years of age. Of the 1,441 persons who died during the week, 800 were under 20 years of age, 210 were 20 and under 40, ISO were 40 and under 60, 207 wet e 60 and under 80, and 44 were 80 years of age and up garde. The deaths of five nonagenarians c.Te re 4 corded; the oldest was a man whe had attained the age of 93 years. One hundred and fiftyeene persons died from phthisis, the total number o persons dying from other diseases of the respiratory organs, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, &c., being 149. Last week the births of 970 boys and 897 girls, in all 1,867 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 18,54.-63 the average number (corrected) was 1,872. At the 'loyal Observatory, Greenwich, thr, mean height of the barometer in the week was 2F1•775in. The barometrical reading was 30.13 in. at Ole begin ning of the week, and decreased to 29'52 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of tho a:r in the week was 60.3 deg., which is 1.3 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (es determined by Mr glaisher). The highest day temperature was 81.0 deg. on Tuesdey. The lowest night tempera., tune was 47'4 deg. on Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the week was therefore 33.6 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 61.3 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 9.1 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 73, complete saturation being repre3ented by 100. Rain fell during the week to the amount of 0.433 in. The general direction of the wind was south-west. The births registered in Dublin during the week ending the 3d of September were 174, an a the deaths were 120, in a population of 254,808 (in 1861), epread over an area of 3,808 statute acres. The numbers are kindly furnished by the Registrar General of Ireland. The deaths in Vienna, as r e t urne d b y D r. Giatter, were 280 in the week ending th e 27th Aug ustwben the mean temperature was 61.2 deg., that at Green, with having been 52.2 deg. LONDON GAZETTE--Last Evenings FOREIGN OFFIOE, SEPT. 3. Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from the Prussian Charge d'Affaires at this Court a notification, that persons once ring Prussia are still required to be provided with passports. SEPTEMBER 6. The following despatches have been received at the Foreign Office, from Sir Frederick Bruce, her Majesty's Minister in China, and from Mr Caine, her Majesty's Con sul at Swatow Pekin, June 7, 1864. 1 My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose " _Returns for Shanghae of import and export trade under foreign flags" for the year 1163, published by Chinese Customhous e . On the last page there is a table giving the yearly amount of foreign commerce, beginning with 1854. The import trade has increased from taels 41,000,000 (about £13,000,000) in 1860 (the last year before the open_ lug of the Yangtze and the northe. ports ), to t ae l s 81,000,000 (about £27,000,000) in 1863. u r trade, from f fr a o l m l d t e h s e cr p i p o r ti t o s n o s p . en e o d w o i n n g t h t e o h a e ng v t i z o e : lance of the winds and th e rap i dity of the currents in cer- This increase is due, in a great measure, t o th e large od t i a n n d increasing Chinese pr tain places, the application of steam to navigation was re quired before the Yangtze could be made available as a highway for transport. The decks of the steamers are now crowded with Chinese passengers, their holds are filled with produce destined, not for f export, but for Chinese consumption. The practica) io,N , intages of foreign inventions are thus brought :.clue io th.:ssLs of the popula tion in the very centre of China, end they can now avail themselves of the natural cutler for the productions of those rich internal provinces, instead of being driven to the slow and circuitous method of artificial water communication, and exposed to the exactions of officials of the different provinces they had topr,ss througa. The large amount node: the hoed of re-exports embraces the trade in imports and exports which have been brought to Shanghae as an entrepot, and are thence distributed to different ports of China, to Japan, and to the western world. The exports of Shanghae itself have suffered from the diminution of the silk crop, due to the advance of the in surgents into the silk districts, and the flight or forcible seizure of the labouring population. The entries of foreign-owned tonnage employed in carry ing this trade have increased, within the same period, from 293,0G6 to 996,890. I have, &c., FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE. The Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G., &c. BANKRUPTS. Tho following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : Charles Cross, watchmaker, Exeter John Best, butcher, Darlington Whitehall Worthen, cooper, Coppenhall Frances Dukes, joiner, Sheffield John Turner, case maker, Sheffield Samuel Levick, general dealer, Sheffield James Day, builder, Reigate Bernard Isaacson, naturalist, New-cross George Briggs, builder, Lambeth Joseph Joanny, greengrocer, Soho John Swales, screw bolt manufacturer, Manchester Theophilus Moss, confectioner and baker. Manchester John Thompson, butcher, Newcastle. Upon-Tyne Wiliam Ni cho l son , porter and beer retailer, Everton, near Liverpool Course of Exchange, —Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 2 12 9 Antwerp Brussels .... 25 70 25 77i llamburgh Paris ... Short. 25 25 25 35 :Ditto Marseilics — 25 70 25 75 Frankfort on Maine - 1201 121 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh —30 i Berl in .......... „ ___ ___ Madrid Cadiz — 471 48 Leghorn — 25 75 25 - 80 Milan Genoa — 25 SO 25 8;5 Naples Palermo — 25 80 25 85 Messina — 25 80 25 85 Lisbon Oporto Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......Der oz., £3 17 9 fSilver is EhtB (SiAllllArti). ...... c... • 0 c'r